A man who forgot the password he changed while high on drugs and was unable to recover $400,000 worth of Bitcoin finally recovered it 11 years later thanks to AI.



A man who had forgotten his password and was unable to access his Bitcoin wallet shared a story about how he recovered it with the help of Anthropic's AI chatbot, 'Claude.'




AI helps man recover $400,000 in Bitcoin 11 years after he got high and forgot password - Dexerto
https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/ai-helps-man-recover-400000-in-bitcoin-11-years-after-he-got-high-and-forgot-password-3364678/

The man had previously purchased Bitcoin for $250, but after changing his Bitcoin wallet password while smoking marijuana, he forgot it and was unable to access his wallet for 11 years. During that time, the value of the Bitcoin he held had ballooned to approximately $400,000 (about 63 million yen).

The man tested over 3 trillion passwords using password cracking tools, but to no avail. He also found a passphrase he had recorded in his college notebook, but it was from before he changed his password, so it was useless for his current wallet.



However, when the man asked Claude to crack his password, Claude analyzed the files the man provided and unearthed an old wallet file that appeared to have been created before the password change. The man was able to decrypt the file using his old passphrase and successfully recover the same private key that was being used for his current wallet.

Incidentally, the password the man set while high was apparently 'lol420fuckthePOLICE!*:)'.

The man thanked Anthropic and CEO Dario Amodi, even saying he would name his child after CEO Amodi.

Speaking of Bitcoin, there's the famous story of a man who threw away the hard drive containing his private key, losing access to 40 billion yen worth of Bitcoin. This man is still searching for the hard drive as of the time of writing this article.

A person who threw away an HDD containing 40 billion yen worth of Bitcoin as trash is still searching for it 12 years later - GIGAZINE



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